Hera Syndulla in ‘Star Wars Rebels” season 4 (Lucasfilm)
Disney XD’s released a new three-minute trailer for the upcoming fourth season of the animated Star Wars series, Star Wars Rebels. Season four – the show’s final season – will premiere on Monday, October 16, 2017 and features returning voice cast members Freddie Prinze Jr. as Kanan, Vanessa Marshall as Hera, Steve Blum as Zeb, Tiya Sircar as Sabine, Taylor Gray as Ezra, Dee Bradley Baker as Captain Rex, David Oyelowo as Kallus, Forest Whitaker as Saw Gerrera, and Lars Mikkelsen as Grand Admiral Thrawn. Warwick Davis (Rogue One, Star Wars: The Last Jedi) joins the cast for the show’s final season as Rukh, Admiral Thrawn’s deadly assassin.
Emmy Award winner Dave Filoni (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), Oscar nominee Simon Kinberg (The Martian), and Emmy nominee Carrie Beck (Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures) created the popular animated series. Filoni, Kinberg, and Beck wrote the critically acclaimed sci-fi series, with Filoni also directing 32 episodes as well as executive producing with Kinberg.
The Plot: In this final season, the Ghost crew joins the growing Rebel Alliance, struggling to unite against the Galactic Empire. However, when a new Imperial threat arises on Lothal, Ezra leads the crew back to his home world to defeat the oppressive forces of the Empire under the command of cunning Grand Admiral Thrawn. Old friends are reunited and new alliances are forged as the series builds to its epic conclusion.
Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser in season 3 of Starz’ ‘Outlander.’
I can usually spot Ronald D. Moore at Outlander events wearing a kilt. For the Starz Television Critics Association party this summer, he was wearing khakis. I actually asked him about the switch to pants and he joked, “Well, you know, you’ve got to mix it up, keep everybody guessing.”
Season three of Outlander sees 20 years of Claire and Jamie’s lives apart, leading to Claire and Jamie’s daughter Brianna (Sophie Skelton) in the ‘60s with Roger (Richard Rankin). Here is our one-on-one interview with Moore at the TCA party including a look ahead to season four’s move to South Africa for production, and an ocean voyage for Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan). Outlander returns September 10, 2017 on Starz.
One of the fans asked about the decision to have Roger with a full beard. Why was it decided vs. clean shaven?
Ronald D. Moore: “I think we just decided that Richard looks really good in a beard. It was literally about that simple. I think he shaved it at one point and then we went, ‘Oh.’ If I’m remembering the order of events correctly, Maril (Davis) will correct me if I’m wrong, I think we saw him audition in a beard and then I think we saw him shaven and we all kind of went, ‘Aww, he looked so cool in the beard. Let’s have him grow it back.’ And it looked really good.”
How does Brianna as an adult change the dynamic between Claire and Frank?
Ronald D. Moore: “We don’t play that too much because the way the season is structured, she’s just graduating high school and then Claire and Frank (Tobias Menzies) have their ultimate break and then he passes away. So, you don’t really get a chance to explore that aspect of the relationship too much this season. We have talked about in later years, season four and five, as we get more into Brianna, we might be talking more about her backstory and her relationship with her father and then maybe more about what it was like when there were the three of them and she was on the cusp of adulthood.”
But growing up she changed their dynamic.
Ronald D. Moore: “Oh, yes. As a child, yeah, because it’s what kept them together. They had both committed to raising her as two parents and that was the defining characteristic of their relationship for a long time. Once they had realized it wasn’t going to work out between the two of them, they had reached some accommodation of, ‘We’re going to live separate lives in the same house but we both love this girl and we’re both going to be her parent.’ That was the glue that held the whole thing together for a very long time.”
So, she affected them positively.
Ronald D. Moore: “Oh yeah, absolutely.”
Tobias said he thought about Frank’s separate life, even though we don’t really see it. Did you and he discuss that?
Ronald D. Moore: “Not really. We might have had a passing conversation about it. We did talk about it back in season one when we did the episode where we cut to Frank’s point of view when Claire was gone. We were talking about Frank’s life after she was missing and then after he finally gave up about her and went on to Oxford and tried to carry on. When she returned at the beginning of season two, we did have some conversations about where Frank was emotionally. He’d given up the idea of ever seeing her again. He’d kind of reconciled himself to that and he was trying to move on. He hadn’t quite let go of her but he was moving down that path. We had those kinds of conversations.”
Do the time jumps over the 20 years happen at relatively the same intervals?
Ronald D. Moore: “No. We did try to structure that initially but it didn’t really match up so it’s not literally five years pass in Jamie’s story and five years in Claire’s. It’s more thematic. Thematically things are parallel in between the stories but not literally in terms of chronology.”
When you move to South Africa, not all the stories are on the ship but do you have to build all your sets there?
Ronald D. Moore: “We built most of them there. Beaches and tropical jungles and huts and all that wasn’t something we could accomplish in Scotland. We did do some interiors in Scotland. There’s a big scene at the governor’s mansion that we did shoot in Scotland before we even went to South Africa, but most of the story, once Jamie and Claire get on the ship to the end of the season, the vast majority of that was shot in South Africa either on location or on their soundstages.”
When new cast members like Sophie and Richard come in, do you have any way to prepare them for Outlander fans?
Ronald D. Moore: “Not really. You sort of have a general conversation with them but it’s the kind of thing you have to experience to even understand. You say okay, this is a big fandom, there’s going to be a lot of publicity requests. There’s a lot of interaction with fans. You’re probably going to be invited to conventions and so on. Then other cast members probably talk to them more because now they’ve gone through it. Generally, you just let them experience it on their own.”
The ‘60s itself is a period piece. How does recreating that compare to older times in Scotland or WWI?
Ronald D. Moore: “It’s very similar. All the 20th century scenes, whether they’re ‘40s, ‘50s or ’60 have similar challenges in that you are creating a period that doesn’t exist but there’s a lot of rentals and a lot of actual items that are still available and sitting around. You can go rent a refrigerator from the 1940s and ‘50s. You can rent some background clothes for that period. The cars still exist. When you’re doing the 18th century, virtually none of that still exists. What does exist is probably a museum piece so you’re recreating it in some fashion.”
Is it close enough where you can be in modern locations and you have to CG out the modern parts?
Ronald D. Moore: “Yeah, in the trailer that you saw today, there’s just a quick shot of the Boston street where Claire’s car pulls up in the street. That was shot on location in Glasgow on a street that looked very much like Boston, had a brownstone look to it. Down the road, we took out Glasgow and in CGI we created some steeples and what looks sort of like Boston in the far distance. Then the post-production crew goes through every frame basically looking for things that are anachronistic. Signage. Is there a satellite dish? Little things that the average viewer probably isn’t even going to see but you have people that do nothing but look frame by frame for anything in the shot that might be anachronistic to the period.”
Are you able to see any of the politically charged time of the ‘60s through Roger and Brianna?
Ronald D. Moore: “A little bit. We refer to it, we talk about it a little bit. It’s not a dominant aspect of those stories but it colors their experience.”
We’ve seen Claire without Jamie before. Is seeing Jamie without Claire a very different look at him?
Ronald D. Moore: “It is. It’s also a very interesting journey because his stories are so different. The chapters of the book for Jamie in season three, this episode he’s at the battle of Culloden and this episode he’s living in a cave and this episode he’s in prison and this episode he’s at Hellwater and this episode he’s at a print shop in Edinburgh. So, you have these five chapters of a man’s life over 20 years and he knows different people, he’s got different relationships, he’s at a different place in his life in each one of those. So, it’s really an opportunity to open him up in a very different way.”
Is the romance almost gone for Claire?
Ronald D. Moore: “Well, she’s holding onto a romantic idea. For all intents and purposes, she’s given up ever seeing Jamie again, but she can’t let go of what he meant to her in her heart. So, she’s holding onto this romantic notion emotionally even though she’s intellectually trying to move past it.”
Hannah John-Kamen as Dutch in ‘Killjoys’ (Photo by Ian Watson/Killjoys III Productions Limited/Syfy)
SYFY and Space confirmed Killjoys will be returning for seasons four and five, with season five being the show’s final season. The announcement came hours ahead of the airing of Killjoys‘ season three finale. Season four is expected to air sometime in 2018.
Michelle Lovretta created the sci-fi series and executive produces with David Fortier, Ivan Schneeberg and Karen Troubetzkoy. The season three cast includes Hannah John-Kamen, Aaron Ashmore, and Luke MacFarlane.
“This renewal is the kind of privilege every creator hopes for – a chance to plan the end of your story with the luxury of 20-episodes to do it,” said creator and executive producer Lovretta. “I’m immensely grateful that both of our network partners – along with Temple Street and UCP – have given our team, cast and fans this incredible opportunity.”
“Helmed by Lovretta and driven by the superb storytelling, we are excited to bring Killjoys back for two final seasons,” stated Bill McGoldrick, Executive Vice President Scripted Development for NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. “Tonight’s game-changing season finale sets the tone for the final chapters of our bounty hunter’s space adventures and we cannot wait for our talented cast and crew to bring to life what is sure to be an epic journey that will leave our passionate fans on the edge of their seats.”
“A final two-season order is a huge vote of confidence for a show that keeps getting better and better,” said Fortier and Schneeberg, co-presidents of Boat Rocker Studios. “We are so proud of the support Killjoys has received from critics and fans alike, and are thrilled to plan a deserving ending for Dutch and the Jaqobis brothers; it has been an incredible intergalactic journey and we could not have wished for better partners to share the ride.”
“This renewal is the kind of privilege every creator hopes for – a chance to plan the end of your story with the luxury of 20-episodes to do it,” said creator and executive producer Lovretta. “I’m immensely grateful that both of our network partners – along with Temple Street and UCP – have given our team, cast and fans this incredible opportunity.”
The Plot:Killjoys follows a trio of interplanetary bounty hunters – rebel leader Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen), tech-savvy John Jaqobis (Aaron Ashmore), and tactical D’avin Jaqobis (Luke MacFarlane) – on the brink of a multiplanetary war. Throughout Season 3 of Killjoys, war has loomed over the J Star System. As the underdog trio struggled to assemble an army, the dangerous force of Aneela and her Hullen crew drew near. In the September 1, 2017 finale, the Killjoy militia are finally ready to go to war against her, using Delle Seyah as bait, but as the battle begins, Aneela finds a way to change the entire game.
Amazon and James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) are teaming up to bring Starsky & Hutch back as a new one-hour series. James Gunn, Brian Gunn, and Mark Gunn are executive producing with Neal Moritz (Preacher) and Pavun Shetty (New Girl). Brian and Mark Gunn will write the new series which is currently in the development stage.
The original series aired in the 1970s and was created by William Blinn. Paul Michael Glaser starred as David Michael Starsky and David Soul played Kenneth Richard ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson. The classic series spawned a feature film released in 2004 and directed by Todd Phillips. In the film, Ben Stiller took on the role of Starsky and Owen Wilson was Hutch. The cast also included Snoop Dogg, Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, and Juliette Lewis.
“When I was a kid, Starsky & Hutch was the first ‘adult’ show I ever saw, and I fell in love,” said James Gunn about the appeal of working on a new series. “It instilled in me a lifelong love of gritty street shows, of killer 70’s threads, and muscle cars. So when Neal Moritz asked me if I wanted to be a part of an all new Starsky & Hutch on TV, I was instantly intrigued. I teamed up with the two writers I trusted most in the world to work with us, my brother Brian Gunn and my cousin Mark Gunn and together we came up with a show that I’m really proud of. At Amazon I believed we would have the most freedom to create something that is different, challenges the audience, and that strays outside the parameters of genre from time to time.”
“Chekhov said if you have a gun in the room, it’s going to go off. We can’t wait to see what three Gunns do with Starsky & Hutch,” stated Joe Lewis, Head of Comedy, Drama and VR, Amazon Studios.
“The chance to work with one of my favorite directors on one of my favorite properties seems too good to be true,” added Neal Moritz. “I’m so excited to make this show at Amazon with James, Mark and Brian.”
The Plot: A co-production with Sony Pictures Television Studios and a continuation of the original 1970s series, the project will be a character-driven one hour procedural for Prime Video that deconstructs the buddy cop genre in the same entertaining way that Gunn did with the science fiction genre.
Ike Barinholtz as Morgan Tookers and Mindy Kaling as Mindy Lahiri in ‘The Mindy Project’ season 5 (Photo by Richard Foreman / Universal Television)
Hulu just released the trailer for the last season of the critically acclaimed comedy series, The Mindy Project. The sixth and final season of The Mindy Project is set to premiere on Tuesday, September 12, 2017 on Hulu. The series was created by Mindy Kaling who also produces, writes, and stars in the popular comedy. The season six cast includes Ed Weeks, Ike Barinholtz, Beth Grant, Garret Dillahunt, Xosha Roquemore, Fortune Feimster, and Rebecca Rittenhouse. Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line) joins The Mindy Project as a guest star for the final season.
The Plot: She’s done it! After five seasons of The Mindy Project, Mindy’s bagged herself a husband. Sure, an impulsive elopement wasn’t the fairy tale wedding of her dreams, but now it’s finally time to see what comes after “I do.” But it’s hard for Mindy (Mindy Kaling) to settle down as a married lady when there’s so much juicy drama at Shulman and Associates! As Jeremy (Ed Weeks) and Anna (Rebecca Rittenhouse) navigate the uncertainties of a new relationship, Tamra (Xosha Roquemore) signs on to be Lahiri Fertility’s newest (and top-secret) patient.
And as The Mindy Project‘s hilarious final season draws to a close, will Morgan (Ike Barinholtz), Jody (Garret Dillahunt) and the rest of the doctors and nurses find their happily ever after? And will Mindy decide that “having it all” is really all she ever wanted?
Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling and Writer/Director Damien Chazelle at the LA premiere of ‘La La Land’ (Photo by Eric Charbonneau / Invision for Lionsgate / AP Images)Damien Chazelle is following up his Oscar-winning romantic musical La La Land with another musical, this time in series form. Academy Award-winner Chazelle and Netflix have teamed up on The Eddy, a musical drama which is “set in contemporary multi-cultural Paris revolving around a club, its owner, the house band, and the chaotic city that surrounds them.”
The Eddy season one will consist of eight episodes, with Chazelle executive producing and directing two episodes. BAFTA Award winner Jack Thorne (National Treasure, This is England) wrote the series which will be filming in France. According to Netflix, the series will include English, Arabic, and French dialogue. Grammy Award-winner Glen Ballard is penning the original music. Thorne, Alan Poul, and Ballard are also executive producing.
“I’ve always dreamed of shooting in Paris, so I’m doubly excited to be teaming up with Jack, Glen and Alan on this story, and thrilled that we have found a home for it at Netflix,” said Chazelle.
Erik Barmack, Vice President of International Originals at Netflix added, “From the intense, complex relationship between a jazz drummer and his instructor in Whiplash to his dazzling duo of lovelorn Los Angelenos in La La Land, Damien’s work is emotional and electrifying. His projects have a rhythm all their own, and we’re incredibly excited for him, Jack, Glen, Alan and the production team to bring their vision for The Eddy to Netflix. We couldn’t be happier that he will be shooting The Eddy in France and that we will bring this bold, global and multilingual series to our members around the world.”
“The creative team behind The Eddy is truly visionary, and we can’t wait to see the world that they create. This project is the definition of premium, global programming, and as one of the first projects of its kind from IMG, we couldn’t be happier to have Netflix as the home to take it to audiences around the world,” stated IMG’s Chris Rice. IMG is backing the project.
During our roundtable interview with Gotham executive producer John Stephens at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con, Stephens revealed his favorite part of creating an episode is watching what the cast does with the material. The cast always elevates the material, and Stephens says it makes him feel like he’s doing theatre in a way. Stephens also discussed the evolution of the show’s Batman, the central theme of season four, that Harley Quinn rumor, Jerome’s possible return, and Gotham’s Scarecrow.
Fox’s Gotham season four premieres on September 21, 2017.
Is next season going to seriously explore the Bruce Wayne to Batman evolution? Are we getting into it more with season four?
John Stephens: “Oh yeah. I mean, I would make the argument we kind of do that every year. But I would say visually when you look at what Bruce is going to be doing this next season, it’s sort of far closer to what our conception of Batman is going to be. You’re also going to get to see him do very specific things, like certain elements when you watch Bruce Wayne pretend to be a playboy, you kind of ask the question, ‘Well, how did he learn to do that?’ So, well, maybe there was a time when he wasn’t pretending to be that. And we’re actually playing a little bit of Bruce kind of having like a little bit of a teenage spiral where he enjoys the playboy elements of being a billionaire with no parents in Gotham, so he can draw from that later on when he becomes the fake playboy.”
What kind of new sets do you have? Will we be seeing a fully realized Iceberg Lounge?
John Stephens: “We’ve got a full set Iceberg Lounge which has a frozen Ed Nygma in the center of it, like Han Solo in carbonite which is awesome. Sofia Falcone is coming on this season as a new series regular, so we have a new Falcone mansion which is cool and awesome. We have a new Sirens Lair, a new place which is sort of like a Soho house of crime. And we have a new place in the Narrows where some of our characters are going to congregate.”
Now that you’re going into the fourth season, have you stayed on course from the first season?
John Stephens: (Laughing) “That implies we have a plan. Yes and no, to a degree. We knew we wanted to bring in Ra’s al Ghul at a certain point. We knew we wanted to have Bruce have his teenage wildling years. We knew we wanted to have a traumatic event that would send him on that journey. So, I would say in our big picture scheme, like the story movements we’re doing are very much on track. But the actual events – a lot of those are surprising us.”
Are there going to be any unusual pairings this season that we should look out for?
John Stephens: “Yes. We have all these like families that are being created this year. One of the families is going to be a brand new, very different Lee Thompkins together with Ed Nygma and Solomon Grundy. When Butch becomes Solomon Grundy, he doesn’t remember his former life. So, when he runs into Ed Nygma, he doesn’t remember that he wants to rip his head off. And Ed, who has suffered the effects of being frozen for three months, needs Grundy’s help to get strong again. The three of them form this kind of weird little family. It should be fun.”
How does Scarecrow fit into the overall story?
John Stephens: “He comes in…at the very beginning of the season Penguin has solidified his control over Gotham. He’s kind of unionized crime, and Scarecrow comes in to reintroduce fear to Gotham and to remind people that basically the dark is still scary out there. He really kind of fashions, especially episode two, almost a horror movie episode where we really get to see Scarecrow just purely terrifying. If you can imagine rather than all the other versions of Scarecrow that are out there – because there are a lot of different versions – what if we really tell Scarecrow as a horror movie.”
David Mazouz did an interview before the season three finale and he said Gotham would be introducing Harley Quinn in the finale. Where was she?
John Stephens: “It was my fault, totally. What I had said in an earlier interview was that there would be a Harley Quinn-esque character, and I think the ‘esque’ part got left off a little bit. Our feeling was that Barbara and a lot of her insanity and larger-than-life qualities and theatricality was modeled along the spirit of Harley Quinn. But, it’s not Harley Quinn and we’re not bringing in Harley Quinn.”
What’s the plan for Jerome?
John Stephens: “Well, what I would say about Jerome is Jerome is in Arkham right now. And when you think about Arkham’s record of keeping people locked up, we will probably see him again before the end of the year.”
The Crown‘s Claire Foy will receive the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles’ Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year. The honor is presented annually to a “talented British artist whose outstanding performances in a year have demonstrated the high quality of their craftsmanship. Whether an emerging talent, or an established name, the British Artist of the Year presented by Burberry honors a person who represents the best of British talent.”
Claire Foy’s credits include Breathe, The Lady in the Van, Wolf Hall, Rosewater, Crossbones, Vampire Academy, White Heat, and Upstairs Downstairs.
Foy will be honored during the 2017 AMD British Academy Britannia Awards to be held on Friday, October 27, 2017 in Beverly Hills. Jack Whitehall is hosting the awards presentation. Dick Van Dyke was previously announced as the recipient of the Britannia Award for Excellence in Television and Ava DuVernay will receive the John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing.
“Claire is the perfect encapsulation of the enduring legacy of British talent succeeding on a global stage. Her performances this year have been nothing short of phenomenal, including of course her iconic role in The Crown portraying the longest ever serving British monarch in history,” stated BAFTA Los Angeles Chairman Kieran Breen. “BAFTA is committed to celebrating extraordinary British talents on a global platform, and we could not think of a more deserving and timely honoree for the British Artist of the Year Award.”
Previous Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year winners include Felicity Jones, James Corden, Emma Watson, Daniel Craig, Kate Winslet, Tilda Swinton, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Blunt, Michael Sheen, and Rachel Weisz.
The Flash star Tom Cavanagh did an impressive job of talking about Harrison Wells while not giving anything away during our roundtable interview at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con. Cavanagh joined his fellow The Flash cast members – Grant Gustin, Danielle Panabaker, Candice Patton, Jesse L. Martin, Keiynan Lonsdale, and Carlos Valdes – at the pop culture convention to discuss the upcoming fourth season of the comic book-inspired series which is set to premiere on October 10, 2017. During our interview, Cavanagh talked about how much he’s enjoyed the different iterations of Harrison Wells and the challenges of bringing each Harry to life.
Can you talk about the many different versions of Harrison Wells and who he’ll be this season?
Tom Cavanagh: “Yeah, there may be a few versions. I’m going to start with Harry, but one of the strengths of the show has always been to…we created this area of privilege where it’s like we have an explanation and a pathway that allows us to be more than one person. We’ve created a cage and then we can rattle the cage, and the cage is the multiverse. Different Earths – Earth-19 Wells, Earth-2 Wells, Earth-1 Wells, you know, Eobard Thawne. There’s all this. It’s been a joy to be on a show that’s a long-running show but that allows me to play more than one character. It’s a real privilege.
Most of what I hear from people who watch are like, ‘What’s it going to be this year?’ We don’t have a huge interest in repeating ourselves, but it’s nice to start off with a base and then use whatever our story arcs are as the season progresses to manufacture another version of Wells.
What I hear is, ‘We’re missing a daily antagonist,’ which is the reason for Harry in season two. ‘We’re missing some humor,’ that was the reason for H.R. in season three. And, what I always hear from the fans is like, ‘So it’s going to be one of those guys that we saw for a split second – Cowboy Wells, Steampunk Wells, Mime Wells?’ And I’m like, ‘No, you don’t want guys spitting all over the cortex, A). And B), you already did Tom Felton with the British accent, and you don’t want a mime.’ We’ll have to come up with something a little more inventive, a little more creative, a little different. Again, the reason I signed on to the show was the Reverse Flash; that’s always in the back pocket. As we move further along, I think there’s always room to pull the yellow suit out.”
As an actor, it’s a great challenge for you to play.
Tom Cavanagh: “It’s phenomenal. It’s really trouble for the wardrobe department, but for me it’s (great). Yeah, when I’m playing two guys in one scene they’re always like, ‘Who is he? What are you wearing? Which guys is he?’ Literally, they lose their minds. It’s great.”
Do you ever feel like an actor in search of an anthology? He’s like an anthology character.
Tom Cavanagh: “It is. Not to belabor the point, but it does feel like a privilege to be in a show where the producers have created the reason – and a good reason – behind being a number of different people. If you’re fortunate enough to be in a long-running show, oftentimes you’re just playing the same person season after season after season. For me to be able to have a different guy, it’s great.”
So, what’s it like for Wells to have been killed so many times?
Tom Cavanagh: “We always know going in… Like, I always know what it’s going to be. That was the reason for the drumsticks last year for H.R. We wanted some kind of non-verbal tableau that sort of gave us an idea of what we were missing, or the spirit of the guy. And like very early on I was like, ‘I want to use these drumsticks!’ And then when he goes to kill Savitar, we have that moment where the drumsticks will slow-motion fall out – and we ended up doing it. But, I didn’t tell these guys. Grant (Gustin) would always be like, ‘Why do you have drumsticks?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, exactly, why?’”
Since you’re keeping what’s happening with season four Wells so close to the vest, do you know some things that you’re going to spring on them in character once they give you the Wells you’re going to be for the new season? Do you have some ideas already you want to incorporate?
Tom Cavanagh: (Laughing) “Yes.”
Could there ever possibly down the line be a female version of Harrison Wells?
Tom Cavanagh: “I’m not going to say whether we’re not going to do that because I don’t know, but that’s been part of the discussions. There should be in the way that there could be a female Flash, all this. Like I say, when you create the reason behind it, it’s like, ‘Great, we can go anywhere.’ We’ve got a multiverse to choose from. We can go anywhere. I liked the relationship between the younger Jesse Quick, that kind of dynamic, and who knows what powers and what her storyline arc is going to be going forward. This show’s going to run, I heard, for like 27 years. (Laughing) I think there’s a lot of room for a lot of things.”
The 2017 Telluride Film Festival will run Friday, September 1st through Monday, September 4th, and with the festival just about to get underway the full program lineup has been announced. Once again, the films screening at the festival include movies that are expected to earn Oscar consideration. Among the movies screening at this year’s Telluride Film Festival are Alexander Payne’s Downsizing, Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour, and Valerie Faris & Jonathan Dayton’s Battle of the Sexes, all early favorites to be in the running for the 2018 Oscars.
The 44th Telluride Film Festival will screen more than 60 feature films, shorts, and revival programs, with 26 countries are represented in this year’s film lineup. “Telluride Film Festival has long been a platform for films from many different cultures and backgrounds that celebrate diversity,” stated Telluride Film Festival executive director Julie Huntsinger. “We feel it’s more important than ever to promote the unique and beautiful differences that exist in the world. From a wide range of new American and foreign cinema to eye-opening documentaries and gorgeous restorations, we are proud to present this 44th program and honor those artists who have made it possible.”
Oscar winner Christian Bale and Oscar nominated cinematographer Ed Lachman will be presented with Silver Medallion Awards during the festival. The Silver Medallion Award is “given to recognize an artist’s significant contribution to the world of cinema.” Israeli Film Fund director Katriel Schory will be given the Special Medallion award as a “hero of cinema who preserves, honors and presents great movies.”
Telluride Film Festival Lineup:
· ARTHUR MILLER: WRITER (d. Rebecca Miller, U.S., 2017)
· BATTLE OF THE SEXES (d. Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton, U.S., 2017)
· DARKEST HOUR (d. Joe Wright, U.K., 2017)
· DOWNSIZING (d. Alexander Payne, U.S., 2017)
· EATING ANIMALS (d. Christopher Quinn, U.S., 2017)
· FACES PLACES (d. Agnes Varda, JR, France, 2017)
· A FANTASTIC WOMAN (d. Sebastián Lelio, Chile-U.S.-Germany-Spain, 2017)
· FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL (d. Paul McGuigan, U.K., 2017)
· FIRST REFORMED (d. Paul Schrader, U.S., 2017)
· FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER (d. Angelina Jolie, U.S.-Cambodia, 2017)
· FOXTROT (d. Samuel Maoz, Israel, 2017)
· HOSTAGES (d. Rezo Gigineishvili, Georgia-Russia-Poland, 2017)
· HOSTILES (d. Scott Cooper, U.S., 2017)
· HUMAN FLOW (d. Ai Weiwei, U.S.-Germany, 2017)
· THE INSULT (d. Ziad Doueiri, France-Lebanon, 2017)
· LADY BIRD (d. Greta Gerwig, U.S., 2017)
· LAND OF THE FREE (d. Camilla Magid, Denmark-Finland, 2017)
· LEAN ON PETE (d. Andrew Haigh, U.K.-U.S., 2017)
· LOVELESS (d. Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia-France-Belgium-Germany, 2017)
· LOVE, CECIL (d. Lisa Immordino Vreeland, U.S., 2017)
· LOVING VINCENT (d. Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, U.K.-Poland, 2017)
· A MAN OF INTEGRITY (d. Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran, 2017)
· THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE (d. Aki Kaurismäki, Finland, 2017)
· THE RIDER (d. Chloé Zhao, U.S., 2017)
· THE SHAPE OF WATER (d. Guillermo del Toro, U.S., 2017)
· TESNOTA (d. Kantemir Balagov, Russia, 2017)
· THE VENERABLE W. (d. Barbet Schroeder, France-Switzerland, 2017)
· THE VIETNAM WAR (d. Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, U.S., 2017)
· WORMWOOD (d. Errol Morris, U.S., 2017)
· WONDERSTRUCK (d. Todd Haynes, U.S., 2017)
Revival Programming:
· EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL (d. Werner Herzog, West Germany, 1970)
· HOTEL OF THE STARS (d. Jon Bang Carlsen, Denmark, 1981)
· THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (d. Charles Laughton, U.S., 1955)
· SALAM CINEMA (d. Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran, 1995)
· TITICUT FOLLIES (d. Frederick Wiseman, U.S., 1967)
· THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (d. Jacques Demy, France, 1964)
